Brit here: I wish someone would ELI5 to the UK population what the difference is. We honestly have no idea, they have no manifesto, no policies, only "FARAGE!". Yet people have flocked to them in droves. I honestly dispair, and want to leave my home country.

I am amazed anyone can look and listen to Farage and believe a single word he says. The most fake, self-serving, venal, corrupt, lying opportunistic politician I have ever seen. How stupid do you have to be not to see that?

Its a distinct possibility. Off the top of my head all the 40k books I have read featuring the SW (Ashes of Prospero, Lukas the Trickster and The Emperor's Gift) all have featured Bjorn at some point. And RG must cross paths with the Space Wolves at some point, just don't too much reverence from them.

On a side note finished Plague Wars and two or three times it is mentioned the White Scars are there supporting the Ultramarines: you would have thought they would have made a bigger deal of a first founding chapter fighting with the newly arisen Primarch. Shows how under-used the White Scars are. RG meeting with first or even second foundings is what I what to see. A chat with the Black Templars would be interesting.

I know right? I was really excited when I read about White Scars in Plague Wars and hoping we would get one or two new awesome characters from them and their interaction with Guilliman or maybe primaris, but instead we got....pages of Novamarines, another codex-loving ultramarine successor chapter...

Yes it really was! I do kind of wish we saw more of what happened on Galatan. The bit that got me though was the last part where Roboute is giving Matthew a proper bollockin, even the Custodes there was a bit like "Fuck... he angry"

Yeah I wanted more of that but clearly Haley wanted it to be s cliffhanger: who is in control of the fort? The last we hear is Typhus getting speared by the Grey Knight, so it was fairly obvious the result anyway. It was s great depiction of a Death Guard assist nonetheless.

Mathieu is such a cnut lying and letting the Iolanthe and the Sororitas take the blame. He is a strange character with all his BDSM religious fervour, you wonder if he might fall.

I have read Dark Imperium and halfway through Plague Wars. I have also read the 'Of Honour and Iron'. All of the lore sorta leans towards yes the new Marines are lovely and shiny and tall, and that they are stronger and faster that old Astartes but also that they lack experience and also proper Space Marine mentality, if you understand me. Yes the Idomitus Crusade is a hundred years old, but Space Marine Chapters are steeped in combat and tradition birther of 10 thousand years of war.

Also my admittedly poor understanding of founding fresh Chapters is you take a hero/officer/company of the parent Chapter and build the new Chapter around him/them. Nassir Armit for the Flesh Tearers and Sigi for the Black Templars spring to mind. Surely you don't just create a Chapter from nothing, you need experience to lead it: Chapter Master, Company Captains, Chaplains etc. How does that work with Primaris? I mean even a century of combat doesn't make you much more than a neophyte compared to old school Chapters. How long from initiation to Scout to full blown battle brother?

Anyway someone was talking in the wake of the Indomitus Crusade whole Primaris Chapters being formed, but surely they will need older Space Marines as officers and Chapter Masters? Unless they are just "Chapters" in Guilliman's "Legion" and so get ordered around directly by him. Centainly up until he returned Chapters are very autonomous to the rest of the Imperium. They literally pick the fights. No-one can order Space Marines around. I mean the Inquisition tried with the Wolves with hilarious consequences.

Everyone’s understanding of a chapter founding is poor because the descriptions of it are sparse and scattered.

The differences between and officer and a regular troop are training and supposedly talent. In a huge pool of recruits, you can pick out the ones who have the top percentile talent for officering, or for the specialist offices, and then train them and that’s how they get officers.

Some people could say that just because they do that in the real world and have 21 year old officers, it doesn’t mean marines do it, esp since they usually aren’t always the most competent and those kids don’t go straight to general. Those second lieutenants have huge experienced command structures overseeing them.

Marines also have that. Marine chapters very commonly fight in crusades and there is a hierarchy where the chapters choose an officer to be the commander of all the marines in the crusade. They call it a Magister Militum. They don’t necessarily have to be a chapter master, I’m not sure if Carab Culn was chapter master when he was magister militum. Certainly there were other masters who put their chapters at his command.

Inside a chapter not all captains are equal. There are captains who are become force commanders with an extra ten or twenty squads loaned out to him, and then there are other captains who come along and assist them.

Not all chapter masters are created equal. In the second war for Armageddon, Calgar nominated Dante to command all the marine forces.

Even in the crusade it was common for a young legion or recently found primarch to serve an apprenticeship, where the whole legion was essentially a junior member of a crusade fleet with a more developed legion.

A chapter master by itself is in some ways not that senior of a position. He’s only got ten captains reporting to him, he’s a lieutenant colonel at best. When you add in the ships and forge that bumps him up a bit, but that’s kind of an administrative station not a combat one.

Marines have crusade and inter-chapter training arrangements all the time. For example, the Ultima founding was a crusade itself. Out of the many thousands of unnumbered sons, not only were there enough to pick some to be officers, there were enough that some of them could become command level officers. That is also what happens in the real world militaries, some people have low ranks but they become staff officers because they’re going to be promoted quickly. That can happen to marines too.

No, nobody has good knowledge of how a chapter is founded because it’s not detailed. Even the idea of marines being detached to form the new officer corps was originated on a message board because the users didn’t have any better ideas.

Wherever they actually come from, it is very easy to just make officers by getting a big candidate pool (1000?), and just training the best ones. Even if an officer is newly trained, it’s possible to make him a chapter master, and tell the chapter to not wander off by themselves but stick very close to Dante or Calgar or Lysander and learn from the entire functioning command staff of a venerable chapter.

One advantage the Primaris chapters founded after the Indomitus Crusade have is that they have far more experience in the lower ranks than traditional newly-founded chapters. Guilliman didn't create a bunch more Primaris marines at the end of the Crusade, he just split up formations that already been fighting together for a hundred years. There's no long period of training and building up reserves like older foundings. The officers are the ones who distinguished themselves to Guilliman himself, who generally has a good eye for officer material.

True but even after 100 years of fighting (and not all the Primaris have been fighting that long as newer ones replacing losses is mentioned) would you have warriors worthy of being Chapter Masters?

I guess it isn't something they have gone into yet heavily. Ok he makes Felix a Captain and then Tetrach, but it is still implied Felix is somewhat green as a marine. On Ardium they Death Guard almost get him with the dude with the bell and its takes the intervention of a Ultramarine Librarian to snap him out of the warp magic.

I really don't think that's it. I think people would've hated it even if there'd been the same season but a year ago. It was genuinely really badly written. So much stuff made no sense, so many things were rushed, forgotten, etc. The finale came across like some kind of superhero movie, with its huge spectacle and little jokes and one liners and fan service, which just didn't work because this show was beloved because it was an intelligent, character and dialogue driven story of political intrigue and familial relationships in a medieval/fantasy setting with huge scope and detail. A rushed blockbuster type ending really didn't work and it would never have worked and a majority of the people who loved the show from the beginning because it was different were always going to hate this season.

Yeah. It made feel like I was watching a cartoon at times. So many eye-roll moments. For most of the finale I found myself spontaneously shaking my head at what was going on.

The other comparison that has been made is open world video games with all the fast travel and respawning. I mean where the funk did all the Dothraki and Unsullied come from? And the Northmen for that matter. Now if we had been shown a large force was held in reserve say at The Twins in case Winterfell....fell I would have bought it, but the Battle of Winterfell seemed to result in devastating casualties. Just needed more honesty and realism.

Glasgow Rangers are Protestant and Celtic are Catholic, it is a very stark sectarian divide and there has been a lot of blood spilled over it.

I sit next to a Scottish Rangers fan and was surprised talking to him about England games, since your average jock loathes England football team with the heat of a thousand suns, but with Rangers fans it is the opposite. He says he doesn't really support Scotland because when Rangers players are picked for Scotland they are booed by their own fans and prefers watching England.

TL:DR Rangers are probably the most English of Scottish clubs and Celtic the most Irish.